Have you ever had a conversation that began with the above words, progressed to a friend bending their elbow the wrong way or turning their nostril inside out, and ended with everyone else saying “NO! That’s not normal, you freak!”?<\/p>\n
No?<\/p>\n
That’s not normal?<\/p>\n
Anyway…<\/p>\n
Is this normal?<\/p>\n
Every time I get a paper cut, nick, scrape, or other kind of boo-boo on one of my hands, it seems to multiply over the next few days, leaving me with teeny tiny cuts and scabs all over both hands. In the latest example, I sliced open the iPhone touchscreen \/ laptop trackpad-using part of my right index finger early last week, and looking at my hands now, I have a total of six independently-acquired boo-boos on my right hand and two on my left, all in various stages of healing. Most of them are right on a knuckle, too, for added ouchies. I can understand an accumulation of cuts on the same hand as the original injury – it hurt like a bastard and probably made me clumsier and more prone to other injuries than normal – but I have no idea why I always end up with a cluster on the other hand too.<\/p>\n
Ah well, at least I’m no longer in the lab. Profusion of cuts + latex gloves = grossness. (This is how I first observed the phenomenon, by the way. Latex gloves are a great way to identify microscopic cuts you didn’t even know you had).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever had a conversation that began with the above words, progressed to a friend bending their elbow the wrong way or turning their nostril inside out, and ended with everyone else saying “NO! That’s not normal, you freak!”? … Continue reading